Where can you buy regular thermometers?

You can find 2nd hand and NOS (new old stock) on eBay. Search fever thermometer.

Oral or anal?

Darling, if you want to stick a thin glass tube in one of your orifices, why not try a swizzle stick?

These festive beauties should be used year round, and not just through the Holiday season.

Impress your friend (or friends, I don't judge) with a little whistling while you insert.

The glass ones break so easily. Just shaking one to get the mercury back down into the bulb was enough to send the bulb part flying off so I still haven't found it. And now there's a tiny amount of liquid metal somewhere in my house. It's only extremely toxic. So that's nice. Find plastic if you can, OP.

What nonsense! I’ve never had one break, although as a child, we kids would break them deliberately and play with the mercury. You could roll it around between your fingers.

The digital ones are good.

r5 It's absorbed through your pores and it causes all sorts of damage to your entire body even in small amounts.

[quote]And now there's a tiny amount of liquid metal somewhere in my house.

Doubt it as it evaporates pretty quickly.

R5 I bet you were the top scholar in your class.

All the classic chemistry sets came with mercury and asbestos. Unless you licked the metal or chewed the fabric it didn't hurt anyone.

Just say it, OP – – "I want the kind with thermometer you can insert up your butt!"

We broke the glass ones to empty the mercury onto our boiling hot Creepy Crawlies plastic for a sci-fi effect.

Loved making creepy crawlers!

I had a chemistry teacher at school who went around the class pouring each child a fair sized blob of mercury to play with.

I don’t know what you mean about “normal kind” but I’ll try to answer, because I just bought a hybrid at CVS. It has an old fashioned kind of piece for the mouth, and an electronic answering score board, whatever. (As opposed to the kind that rubs your forehead and magically has an instant electronic result, used in doctor’s offices.)

It is well into the 21st century.

It's possible you live in one of the 20 states that have banned their sale, but if you can't find one you want on eBay, then look at medical supply type places.

This brings me back to playing doctor. Yes, rectal thermometers were used.

[quote]it causes all sorts of damage to your entire body even in small amounts.

It didn’t do me any harm.